The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-09-01
EVENTS UFTHE WEE0.
Domestic News

minutes at sunrise at Dartmoor and Tor
quay. The sky was obscured by clouds at
Paris and Vienna. Prof. Vogel, OF the
Belgium expedition at Karjewitz on the
Volga, telsgraphs that the sky was over.
cast, but that the solar protuberances and
chromosphere were observed, although the
corona was invisible: The Russian OBJ
stations in obtaining numerous drawings Of
the corona and spectrum. The eclipse was
not observed at st. Petersburg owing to the
clouded sky. At Kiln the sun was also
Obscured, but an aged professor made
balloon ascension alone, SO as to get above
the clouds and make an observation. As
there had been hitch in the filling OF the
of the balloon, considerable doubt was felt
as to its ability to carry the aeronaut, but
the ASCENSION was successfully made and
the professor descended in safety near
Moscow, forty miles distant
The latest from the rowing Utes and Col
GROW is in the following. dispatch received at
the War Department at Washington, from
Maj Randlett, commandant at Fort Du-
chegne, Utah: Corolow has his followers
with him, about 15O in ail, including men,
women and children. There are no indica-
tiOns OF his being reinforced. All the In
believe Colorow would come to the reserva-
tion II he could get there without being at
tackled. Most Of the party who went out
with Mr.. Andrews have returned to the
agency, frightened back. They claim that
COro'ow's camp could not be found. Great
Ii the cowboys have harmed her, i anticipate
it will end in serious trouble, say to the
Indians that hope she is with COiOrow. or
may lie is prisoner at Glenwood Springs
Wish the latter could be ascertained.
Three hundred miners had a narrow es-
cape in the fatal shaft No. !. at Nanticoke
Pa. For long time past hugh subter-
ranean reservoir hes been forming contain
ing millions of gallons of water. This under
ground lake was $40 feet below the surface.
The chamber where the men We're at work
was $50 feet further down and about the
same distance from the mine galleries. The
first intimation the men had that the mine
was being flooded was the sudden mp
pearance OF the water in the chamber. The
men were hurried out in TIME to save their
lives; 30 mules were drowned. Work will
be suspended for an indefinite period. Had
| the earth assures been wide enough to ad-
| init the whole volume of water at once not
man would have been saved.
The Chicago Farmers Review Of this week
| says that the average condition Of the corn
| crop in tie states reporting is as follows:
| Twenty six counties in Illinois report an av-
| erage condition OF the crop Of 5O.4 per cent. !;
eleven counties in Wisconsin, 500 per cont. :
/ ten counties in Ohio, 69.5 per cent eleven
counties in Missouri, 63 per cent. ten coun-
| ties in Michigan, ass per cent. seven coun-
ties in Kentucky, % per cent thirteen .ias 1oGn.
in Indiana, 4S per cent; nineteen counties
| in Iowa, SO per cent. thirteen counties in
Dakota, 125 per cent. ten countiesln Min
nesota, 79.5 per cent, and thirteen counties
in Nebraska, roper cent
The Indiana state authorities say that
the recent financial dispatches sent from
indianapolis are quite erroneous. 1t il
| only the general fund that Is exhausted,
and this is a temporary affair that fire.
quently heppens. The other funds are not
former treasurers to draw temporarily from
these. However, money will soon be
coming in from the various counties, and
then the revenue Of the state after the
commencement OF the next fiscal year.
Nov. 1, will replenish the treasury. There
is nothing in the situation that will in any
wise effect the credit Of the state.
An indianapolis dispatch says: The
financial embarrassments OF Indiana are
growing more and more serious. The last
dollar in the general fund OF the state
treasury is paid out and there are no re-
sources that can he drawn upon before
next December. In the meantime S3OOON
| will be needed to pay the current expenses
Of the state government and pnblic IN.
stitutions Treasurer Lemeke announces
that he will call upon the counties te
haustion Of the treasury will be tho sus
pension of work upon ali state institutions
Near West York. Crawford county, ILL.,.
man named Sanky found queer looking
box in fence corner. Opening it, lot oi
cartridges, apparently, We're disclosed. San
key took one out and began to PICK u &
pieces with pin, when suddenly there wal
q terrible explosion and his entire hand wa.
blown off, his face being spattsred with
blood and shrcds of flesh. Sanky is terribly
injured, and his recovery is doubtful 1t !,
supposed that the explosives were dynamite
cartl idges, but how they got there and fol
what purpose they were intended Isl mys
terry.
Mrs. Payne. aged 90, and her daughter
aged IS, committed suicide together at New
York, and the fact was not discovered fol
several days. until the stencil from thu
addressed to q daughter Of Thurlow Weed
one OF these said: I'VE are both Of us-my
mother and Insane and dread the mao
house. We want to be with our family
Tell our relatives where we lie." Both Ia
dies had money in bank amounting to near
Il Vs
teacher. Their relatives live in Ohio.
A furious hail storm on the Goth, die
great damage in Southeastern Nebrask;
and Northeastern Kansas. A dispatch
from Atchison, Kansas says: Hail measur
ing nine and ten inches in circumference fell
The wind was from the north, and halt thu
windows in the city on the north side O
tho houses were broken. The loss on broker
glass will aggregate 5000 or 5000. Tn,
storm appeared to he general Throughout
Northern Kansas.
The first shipment Of Oregon hops ha
been forwarded to New York. Packing i
not far enough advanced to state accurate
ly as to this years yield, but the opinion
prevails that while the crop is lighter thai
1855, tho acreage is larger. and the outpu
for export will about equal last year, whcI
Oregon sold twelve thousand bales Thi
does not include tho crop Of the Puyallul
valley in Wash.
Under the law the time allowed for tn
redemption of trade dollars will expire Of
the Sd Of next month. The amount re
deemed up to date is little over $1,4OO,OOO
The number of these dollars estimated to b.
held in this country by the director Of tn
mint in his report to congress was 1,GW,OU
and the slight excess in redemption
accounted for by importations from Chin
and Japan.
The Bank OF London, Canada, has failed
1t has subscribed capital OF $l,OO0,COo, Q
which SIS, ,55S was paid up. The billholder
will not lose heavily. The president Of tn
bank, Mr. Henry Taylor, who had becom
involved by the collapse OF other enter
| prises in which he was interested, has lef
the city and it is rumored that he took $25
} 600 Of the banks funds with him.
The Illinois state Railroad and warehous
commissioners have summoned the railroa
companies to show cause why freight rate
| in Illinois should not be reduced to CORE:
pond with the interstate schedules. Th
, hearing IL set for Sept. l, when shippers an
freight bureaus will also be given an OF
) portunity to show cause why reductlo
should he made.
A number Of German Catholic priests i
the Northwest have been interviewed n
garding tho approaching convention G
y German Catholics in Chicago. They den
that its purpose is hostile to the Irish el,
9 ment in the church or that there is nny an